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You can download R from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) site at http://cran.r-project.org. You can get the R engine for Windows, Linux, or macOS X. Microsoft also maintains its own R portal, the Microsoft R Application Network (MRAN) site at https://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/. You can use this site to download Microsoft R Open, the enhanced distribution of open source R from Microsoft. After installation, you start working in an interactive mode. You can use the R console client tool to write code, line by line. As you already know, there are many additional tools. Let's just repeat here that the most widely used free tool for writing and executing R code is RStudio. It is free and you can download it from

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